Milorad Ekmečić

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Milorad Ekmečić
Born (1928-10-04) 4 October 1928
Prebilovci, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Nationality Yugoslav
Serbian
Occupation Historian

Milorad Ekmečić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Екмечић; born 4 October 1928) is Serbian historian, member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts (SANU) and the Senate of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Life

During World War II, Ekmečić lost 78 members of his family in the Prebilovci massacre. His father, uncle and other members of his family were killed by their neighbour. The surviving members of his family formed a unit of the Yugoslav Partisans in Prebilovci.[1]

In the late years of the Yugoslav era, Ekmečić was a professor of history in the University of Sarajevo. Originally a supporter of Yugoslavism, during the rise of nationalism in Yugoslavia he became a proponent of Serbian nationalism.[2] In 1990, Ekmečić helped establish the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) in Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1] He became a leading member of the party, and is regarded as a "spiritual father of Bosnian Serb nationalists".[3][4] During the Yugoslav Wars he was abducted by Bosniak groups, who aimed at trading him for the safe passage of a convoy of children through areas held by Bosnian Serb nationalists in Ilidža.[5]

Ekmečić is a member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska.[6] He is also a member of the Senate of Republika Srpska.[7]

Bibliography

  • Stvaranje Jugoslavije 1790-1918. Prosveta. 1989. 

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Judah, Tim (2000). The Serbs: History, Myth, and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. Yale University Press. p. 127. Retrieved 23 December 2013. 
  2. ↑ Macdonald, David Bruce (2003-04-19). Balkan Holocausts?: Serbian and Croatian Victim Centered Propaganda and the War in Yugoslavia. Manchester University Press. pp. 97–. ISBN 9780719064678. Retrieved 21 December 2012. 
  3. ↑ Caspersen, Nina (2010-01-01). Contested Nationalism: Serb Elite Rivalry in Croatia and Bosnia in the 1990s. Berghahn Books. pp. 79–. ISBN 9781845457266. Retrieved 21 December 2012. 
  4. ↑ RFE/RL News Briefs. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. December 1993. p. 149. 
  5. ↑ Pejanović, Mirko (2004). Through Bosnian Eyes: The Political Memoir of a Bosnian Serb. Purdue University Press. p. 78. ISBN 9781557533593. Retrieved 21 December 2012. 
  6. ↑ [http://www.sanu.ac.rs/Clanstvo/Clan.aspx?arg=911, "Милорад Екмечић, Одељење историјских наука , редовни члан"] (in Serbian). "АНУ БиХ, дописни од 1973, редовни од 1981; ЦАНУ, дописни од 1993; АН Републике српске, члан ван радног састава, 1996." 
  7. ↑ "MEMBERS OF THE SENATE". predsjednikrs.net. Retrieved 5 June 2013. 

External links

  • [http://www.sanu.ac.rs/Clanstvo/Clan.aspx?arg=911, Biography on the website of SANU]
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